golden egg and dad would hide it. and whoever found it got to cut the pumpkin bread. many times i was reining champion. martha: i'm sure you were. see you tomorrow, everybody. jon: this is a fox news alert. a key decision could come any moment now in the case of the man accused in the colorado movie theater massacre last summer. prosecutors expected to announce whether they will seek the death penalty for james holmes. if they do, his defense attorneys say they will change holmes not guilty plea to a not guilty by reason ever insanity. the defense also offered to plead guilty to all charges if the death penalty is taken off the table. holmes is accused of opening fire inside a crowded theater at a midnight showing of the latest batman film last july and killing 12th and wounding nearly 70 others. we'll continue to follow the case. we'll stay on top of the

latest developments. plus first, brand new stories and breaking news. jenna: the state of texas on high alert today after a district attorney and his wife are gunned down in cold blood. this is just two months after his assistant d.a. was also murdered. brand new details on the manhunt and the investigations. plus the u.s. is flexing its military muscle again. the latest show of force aimed at north korea. how washington is responding to this nation's latest threats. controversy, brand new controversy, in fact over a new proposal to crack down on the abuse of prescription painkillers. why some say the plan is a bad idea. it is all "happening now." jenna: hope you had a nice holiday weekend and nice holiday yesterday and we're glad you're with us this monday morning everybody, i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. it was a horrific holiday weekend in texas. the manhunt is on for a

murderer who may be targeting prosecutors in that part of the state. district attorney mike mclelland and his wife found dead inside their home just months after his assistant d.a. was shot an killed outside the kaufman county courthouse. no arrests have been made. fbi and joining local police investigating both leaders. local leaders are assuring frightened residents that their community is still safe. >> it appears not to be a random attack. it appears to be targeted. i don't think the forney community is in danger. we need to remain calm and supportive of the mclelland family and help those handling the investigation and look out for each other. jon: dan springer is live in kaufman county, texas. the county judge just wrapped up a news conference there. are they closer to making section connections to these two or three killings? >> reporter: everybody is talking about a possible connection but nobody is

saying there is fist physical evidence linking the two. these murders are sending shockwaves throughout texas. police are saying virtually nothing about their investigation, not unusual in a high-profile case and this is the highest of profile cases right now with the atf, the fbi and the texas rangers all involved. bodies of kaufman county district attorney mike mclelland and his wife cynthia were discovered by a friend saturday night. there were a couple reports that the front door was kicked in. bodies were found in one in the front room and one in a hallway. the report the murder weapon was .223 caliber assault rifle and the d.a. was hit 12 times and his wife once in the head. mclelland increased his personal security after his deputy d.a. mark hasse was gunned down january 31st. he had a deputy at his house for a month. a 23 year army veteran said he felt safe.

his deputy d.a. was killed as he walked into the county courthouse, a brazen attack and now another two months later. >> it is my understanding they found no evidence that innings are the two but i mean, just, just this has to be more than a coincidence i would think. >> reporter: and hasse had been instrumental in several cases of prosecuting white supremacist group. apparently the aryan brotherhood has quite a foothold here in kaufman county. several cases prosecuted and a lot of speculation the aryan brotherhood could behind these attacks, jon. jon: i know the d.a. had a guard for a time after his deputy was shot. what security precautions are they taking now with other prosecutors? >> reporter: well, that's right. as i said he had a deputy parked outside of his house for an entire month. so possibly the attacker was waiting until that deputy left. but yeah, you're right. the d.a.s around here all have increased security. it is not just here in

kaufman county. we understand district attorneys throughout the state of texas increased their security. in fact the guy in houston says he has 24/7 security for himself and his family. flags are at half-staff in kaufman county. the courthouse is open today but with an extra police presence outside. the d.a.'s office is closed to the public. it is open though to prosecutors as everybody who is available to work on this case is doing so. jon? jon: dan springer joining us live from kaufman county, texas, thanks, dan. we'll continue to follow this developing story coming up a little later this hour. a former fbi profiler weighs in on the manhunt. what kind of person are they looking for here? jenna: we'll be back to that story. meantime moving to washington, d.c. where apparently there is new information on progress towards a landmark deal to overhaul our nation's broken immigration system. two of the so-called gang of eight senators, that is a bipartisan group crafting the plan, voiced their optimism over the weekend this after reports of a big

compromise apparently between business and labor groups over a guest worker program. we keep on saying apparently, tentatively and all of that because you never know. chief congressional correspondent mike elan manual is live in washington this morning. mike, how close are they really to a deal? house majority leader steny hoyer >> reporter: jenna i'm hearing they are close. senator marco rubio, republican of florida says he is encouraged. the final product will have to be properly submitted for the american's people's consideration. for the other 92 senators from 43 states that were not part of this initial drafting process. in order to succeed this process can not be rushed or done in secret. that means hearings and allowing senators outside of gang of eight to offer amendments and get buy-from others. a democrat sounds hopeful. >> we'll not come to a final

agreement until we look at all the legislativenguage. he is correctly pointing that the language has not been drafted. and there will be little kefuffles but i don't think we expect there to be problems. >> reporter: one big problem was labor and business groups signing off on the worker program for low skilled immigrants. senator schumer hopes a immigration bill could be on the senate floor in may. jenna: what are potential roadblockses that could prevent from happening by may? >> reporter: many on the republican side want to make sure if they agree to a deal they want it to deliver what is promised. they hear encouraging words what can be done but they want to make sure the border is actually sealed. >> issue is border security. eight guys in a room saying the border will be secure is not enough. for 27 years it has not been done. i'm proimmigrant. i grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. the fact is border security is real. >> reporter: there is

bipartisan group in the houseworking on immigration reform. i'm told they're make progress. i'm told there not as far along as the senate group. jenna. jenna: mike, thank you. jon: we're joined by byron york, he is chief political correspondent for the "washington examiner" and a fox news contributor as well. byron, maybe break it down for us. we have the bipartisan group of eight senators. what does each party really want out of this legislation most? >> democrats have been in favor of immigration reform for quite a while. one of the last remaining obstacles for them was agreement between labor unions and business leaders over a guest worker program. they did not want just the mass importation of cheap labor. and this agreement would allow, limit those numbers and allow, workers to move between jobs which unions were, was very important for the unions. so that's a big deal for them. republicans have been divided on immigration reform for a very long time.

it was, their split partially killed immigration reform in '06 and '07 and they remain divided on it today and i think we're about to see those divisions come into the open once we finally get a gang of eight proposal. jon: well, border security is said to be key for republicans like marco rubio. then you have janet napolitano, the department of homeland security secretary saying, she doesn't really know how to measure border security. >> absolutely. there is a huge, huge, fight coming up and that is, republicans who are skeptical of immigration reform are insisting on the border security first before a path to citizenship and some cases before legalization of the 11 million who are here illegally, but you're absolutely right. we've gotten two signs from the administration in the past couple weeks. one janet napolitano said she didn't believe border security should be a trigger for any further immigration reform. the other thing, perhaps more important is, the department of homeland security had been promising

for years it would come up with a new way of measuring border security, to see how secure the border is. there was a house hearing about 10 days ago. the republicans said, okay, is it ready, is it ready? no, it's not ready and as a matter of fact it won't measure border security at all. you heard senator jeff flake, who is a member of the gang of eight say yesterday they have been having trouble getting good information out of homeland security on this issue. that will have to change before republicans will support immigration reform. jon: yeah, because we have various, well, estimates of 11 or 12 million illegal immigrants here already. if you can't secure the borders, you could sign all the legislation you want and three years or five years or 10 years from now you could have another 11 or 12 million illegals in the country, right? >> you're absolutely right and it depends on trust in the government which is not very high right now because the gang of 8 plan, we know it is broad strokes and it will be legalization first, for the 11 million who are

here illegally. then border security. and after the border is declared secure then you will have a path to citizenship. a lot of republicans will have trouble with that scenario of legalization first and then the promise of border security because we heard promises before that the government was going to secure the border and it hasn't fully happened. jon: well, you also had chuck schumer, the democratic senator from new york on the sunday shows over the weekend essentially promising that he thought it was all but a done deal. that they're very, very close. marco rubio not so much. i mean if this thing blows up and they don't come to some kind of an agreement, which party takes the heat? >> well, if it blows up, then that's it for immigration reform if the gang of 8 blows up. there is no doubt about that. republican as you know are very, very worried about their appeal to hispanic voters after just getting killed in the last election among hispanic voters. jon: sure. >> a lot of them think passing immigration reform will allow them to appeal to

more hispanic voters in the future there is division in the party on that. i feel certain that, if, if immigration reform were to go down republicans would probably get more of the blame. jon: byron york from the "washington examiner". we'll continue to follow this issue. byron, thank you. >> reporter: thank you, jon. jenna: we have breaking news out of colorado in that courtroom where james holmes is being tried for the murder of 12 people in that movie theater massacre. the prosecution in colorado has decided to seek the death penalty. the d.a. just announcing that they will be doing that after speaking with hundreds of people involved in this case including the victims. a quote apparently from inside the courtroom and the d.a. himself saying, for james holmes, justice is death. the scene we're getting from the courtroom is one of great emotion. some victims apparently in tears hearing this announcement. we also know that the parents of james holmes are also in the courtroom. i see a note saying that the parents look shaken. i don't know if that is

referring directly to the parents of james holmes. we'll try to get more information on that but the big headline is the prosecution will seek the death penalty. no life in prison for james holmes by a plea of insanity. they're going for the death penalty in this case and we'll keep you posted as we hear more. jon: well a bomb scare prompting an early morning evacuation at a us air port. we'll tell you what happened and where coming up. also washington keeping a close eye on north korea as that regime steps up its nuclear threats. what the u.s. is doing now to try to keep the north in check. this day calls you.

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colorado. holmes walking in the courtroom looking much like the video we have from him several weeks ago. long shaggy hair, bushy beard and red scrubs. when he walked into the courtroom he looked directly at his parents. his dad nodded at him. when the prosecution stood up and we'll be seeking the death penalty, all our producer was not able to see the parents reaction quite as well as they would have liked to, apparently the dad stared straight ahead and the mom put her head down in her hands. that is their son. their son will be tried in this case for the murder of 12 people. just a word of note. we're working on timeline for what the case will look like. that was consideration for the victims and their families, how long a trial like this would take in the state of colorado and if they were seeking the death penalty and that was the ultimate sentence, how long the ultimate justice would take to take place is something that they're considering in this case as well. at any moment a plea bargain could be worked out you. but at this time the prosecution is seeking the

death penalty. more as we get it. jon: right now the north terminal at detroit metropolitan airport has reopened after a bomb scare. police responded to a suspicious item at a security check point but two hours later travelers were allowed to go back in. plus a manhunt underway a right now for an ex-concensus suspected of snatching a 10-year-old girl from her california home last week. police believe tobias summers took the girl and banned her hours later in front of a hospital. there are reports she was sexually assaulted. a florida father is underarrest for allegedly driving drunk with his three kids in the car. police say the man was pulled after a chase that reached speeds above 100 miles an hour. the children, thankfully, were not hurt. jenna: meantime, some rising tensions in north korea where leader kim jong-un is meeting with lawmakers for an annual spring parliamentry session. this is just one day after the u.s. deployed f-22

fighter jets to that region and south korea warns it will strike back quickly if the north attacks. greg palkot is live in london watching all of this go down. greg? >> reporter: hey, jenna, yeah. the young leader of north korea using that earth fwaing to continue his potentially dangerous rants against the united states and other countries. just in the past weekend we've been hearing kim jong-un declare north korea is entering a state of war with south korea. he also said he wouldn't give up his nuclear deterrent for anything. all this follows in the past few months, tests of both long-range missiles and a nuclear device and then u.s.-led international actions including u.n. sanctions defense north korea and threats from north korea it would hit american bases in the region and even mainland u.s. with nuclear-tipped weapons. now the u.s. has to treat all this seriously even though some people question the ability of north korea to do that. these are strong words. that is why it is flying in

those f-22s. they're part of joint exercises i am told will continue to the end of this month and will involve literally tens of thousands of u.s. and south korean troops. still again i've been speaking with my contacts in south korea and they tell me what we're hearing now from north korea is similar to rhetoric we've been hearing in the past aimed at getting more concessions from the west, and from the united states. even there are some talks about rebuilding the decrepit economy in north korea and maybe most critically, building up the stature of this new young leader, this kim jong-un. jenna, that's the key. that's the wildcard. that's why washington is taking all of this rhetoric again quite seriously. there's a new young guy in charge and they don't know whether he might actually act on at least some of the verbiage. back to you. jenna: good context for us today, greg, as always. thank you. >> thank you, jenna, arsonists strike again in area that has already seen

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de. jon: right now an arson investigation ramps up in virginia after another fire there. this time an abandoned building up in flames. the latest in the a string of fires police say were deliberately set. patti ann browne live from our new york newsroom. patti ann? >> reporter: jon, the latest fire was last night off the road deep in the woods as many have been. it was abandoned two-story wooden structure. this is the latest more than 70 fires set deliberately on

virginia's eastern shore since november. almost all have been set at night in abandoned or vacant buildings in desolate areas on the peninsula that separates the chesapeake bay from the atlantic ocean. this is 450 miles mainly farmland. so far no one has been hurt but investigate, are concerned that the fires will spread or someone will be hurt putting out the blaze. they don't know what the motive is. pyro mania is a possibility, that the arsonist is fascinated with fire and not looking to harm anyone. investigators say the arsons may be work of more than one person since some have been set almost sultly at separate buildings. they have gotten 200 tips but no solid leads. a $25,000 reward offered for information that leads to arrest and conviction, jon. jon: what a mystery. patti ann brown, thank you. >> thank you. >> pretty unnerving and

unnerving to the law enforcement community and the community at large. that's why we're striving to, you know, assure the community that we are still providing public safety and we will be able to do that. we're meeting all of our obligations plus the investigative responsibilities. jenna: lots of concern, lots of questions in this texas community after a district attorney and his wife are gunned down in their own home. mike and cynthia mclelland were found dead over this weekend two months after one of his colleagues, a colleague of the d.a., the assistant d.a. was shot dead outside of the kaufman county courthouse. police are ramping up protection and prosecutors say the murders are not random acts. who are they looking for in this crime though? mary ellen o'toole is a former fbi profiler. she will talk to us about this. great to have you back as

always. >> thank you. jenna: this is a high-risk crime and that tells us something about the individual or individuals behind it. what does it tell us? >> when i say it is a high-risk crime i mean that it is high-risk to go into the victim's homes during a time of day where there are other people around. you don't know who is coming. you don't know who is going. there had been a security detail there prior to this shooting, so the offender is taking a lot of risk to get at those offenders. and so that, that suggests to us, just how important those victims were to him. but it also send a very frightening message. it says, listen, you can be in your comfort zone but we are still going to get you. and that is very frightening. jenna: very different than the first murder at the end of january that was outside of this courthouse. wide open in the public. if you had access to the files of these two officials,

the d.a. and the assistant d.a., what would you be looking for? because law enforcement says since that first murder they really have no leads specifically as to who's responsible for these murders. >> well, i would be looking for a variety but let me just zero in on the gang influence that has been suggested here and i would be looking for an individual, maybe that others have described as more of a puppet master. by that i mean, someone who is pulling the strings behind the scenes. gangs are notoriously not democratic. they are run or ruled by one or two people but this kind of a crime suggests that you have one person who is making the decisions about who will go out, who will be the hitmen. and the motive seems to be, to be, in some respects personal. it also suggests from the most recent shooting that the puppet master, the person that is pulling the

strings, may also be fairly thin-skinned. the sheriff commented about a month ago that he will go and he will pull out the person responsible from the hole and bring them back to their county and actually use the word, scum, and said, i hope you're watching this. and then, within a month the sheriff and his wife are murdered. so if the puppet master or people around him are thin-skinned that would certainly be a personality trait for this individual who is also possibly very vengeful or revengeful to take a look at when you consider looking at the suspects. jenna: interesting to note as well our viewers might be familiar that happened in the state of colorado for the prison chief there. there was a man in between the murder of the january of the assistant d.a. and the murder of the d.a. in kaufman county. the suspect was chased back to texas and was killed by

police roughly about two hours away from kaufman county. so they weren't able to talk to this man. they don't really know if there is any connection at all, mary ellen, between the murder in colorado and the alleged suspect's connection to this white soup prem sift group and these two murders in kaufman county. what would you make of it? would you look for a connection here? >> i would certainly look for a connection. i wouldn't rule out what we call parallel avenues of investigation, looking for other explanations. but i would certainly at the same time be looking for how the dots could be connected to all of those events. but that would not be single focus. jenna: mary ellen are, always great to have your expertise. thank you again for your time today. >> you're welcome. jon: south carolina senator lindsey graham, part of the so-called "gang of 8", trying to craft a bipartisan plan on immigration reform in the u.s. senate. his state is quickly becoming the center for the whole debate. we'll explain why next.

plus, fighting the abuse of prescription painkillers. it is a real problem in this country. addictive drugs killing more people every year than car accidents. coming up we'll debate a controversy new plan that could limit the amount of painkillers patients can be prescribed.

jon: the state of south carolina quickly becoming a political bull's

eye over immigration reform. groups on both side of the debate are launching ad campaigns praising and criticizing the "gang of 8" proposal being discussed in the u.s. senate. south carolina is also expected to play a central role in the house's shaping of any immigration deal. john roberts is live from our atlanta bureau with a look at that what is the latest there,. >> reporter: good morning to you. the fate of immigration reform may come down what happens in south carolina. senator lindsey graham and congressman tray gowdy who heads up immigration reform in the house, say this is time to get this done. the nation needs to figure out what to do about the 12 million people illegally in this country. states like south carolina need to tap into large immigration pool for desperately needed businesses like agriculture and tourism and other service industries who can't find people to work for he will this. they are getting tremendous blowback from organizations like numbers usa say why grant amnesty to illegal immigrants when so many

americans are trying to find work? they played a key role in he killing i am membership graduation reform in -- immigration reform in 2007. they put out ads targeting senator graham saying he is does not deserve re-election. senator graham says opponents of immigration reform are using the palmetto state as a test case. >> it has become ground zero. if you can sell it here you can sell it anywhere. the opponents of immigration reform see this as a test case. backing off, trying to shoot at shot across my bow as a warning to others. it is not going to work this time. >> reporter: graham says he is ready for a fight. congressman gowdy tells us he hopes this is the last time the united states has to talk about immigration reform in his lifetime, jon. jon: do graham and gowdy have any support? >> reporter: -- launched a counter campaign in favor of immigration reform. they want every evangelical church in south carolina to

get on board this. dr. richard land of the ethics in religion and liberty commission says immigration is good for the country and good for the republican party. >> i think that the reason that the republican party did so badly among hispanics and among asians is that they are viewed as many of those people as being anti-immigrant. and i think that's a losing position politically and i believe it is an immoral position. >> reporter: congressman gowdy cautions though if the republican party embraces immigration reform purely for political gain it is not likely to work but he does add, jon, if you're talking to someone and they think you don't like them, they're not likely to listen to anything else you have to say. jon? jon: that's a good point. john roberts in atlanta. thank you. jenna: there is some growing controversy surrounding a proposed plan it crack down on abuse of prescription painkillers and it is certainly a growing problem in this country when we're talking about overdosing

with pain killers. in fact government statistics say fatal overdoses involving painkillers take more lives than heroin and cocaine combined. well now the fda is considering a plan to limit daily doses of painkillers like vicodin and oxycontin and restrict their use to just 90 days for non-cancer patients. critics say this plan could hurt people who suffer from serious cronic pain and actually not solve the problem at hand. we have an addiction expert with us who run as recovery program. and we have a attending physician at winthrop university hospital in new york. we'll look at this subject from both sides. joe, why are painkillers so dangerous and so deadly? with so many different drugs out there, why the painkillers? >> they're highly addictive for one. doesn't thank very much for people to build physical dependence on them. the 90-day number they're saying is seems fairly arbitrary. you can become addicted to

them much quicker than 90-days. i personally think alcohol gets a free pass. if we're looking for overdose problem and looking for the solution to it if you view it we're detectives and know there are two murderers why we only looking at one? jon: you're saying the mixing of the drugs is something the government needs to look at or health officials need to look at? >> right. from anecdotal. i don't have any statistical date takes you work with people. >> we do. most of the overdoses we see when people are mixing alcohol with these medications. doesn't mean the medications are safe on their own. doesn't mean you can't overdose with them on their own. there is something that exacerbates the problem when people are drinking alcohol in addition to taking them. jenna: doc, what do you think about this? "l.a. times" had potential 90 limits. you have surgery or pain you get 90 days for a painkiller and that's it. is that a good idea. >> i'm pleased this issue is

being raised. we prescribed 136 million prescriptions of hydrocodone compounds each year. 147 million patients are getting prescriptions. yes there are patients that need the prescription for legitimate medical need. after surgery. after wisdom teeth extraction. there are many patients with chronic pain a 100 million patients in the united states are taking these medications for chronic pain. so the problem here is not just prescribing these medications but the length of the prescriptions. who is getting them? are they being prescribed appropriately? what is the time frame. you do not need 90-day prescription if you're having your wisdom teeth removed. so the length of the prescription is relevant. the problem with this issue is that we know that addiction is a huge problem and the problem is getting worse. 15000 deaths a year. but there are people who need these medications. jenna: let me ask you a little bit about that because it seems like these drugs are so dangerous. are they so great that it is

good to still have them on the market? or should there be maybe a consideration for even having these drugs legal and out there? i mean are they so good for people -- >> they were originally developed, yes. they were originally developed for people with terminal cancers. so the issue was to keep them comfortable. we didn't really worry about them being addicted. there is by-product. so they do have a legitimate medical purpose. the thing i think the situation there is not enough controls put on it. i personally believe there should be an additional licensure for physicians to be able to prescribe it where they have to have some knowledge about addiction what to look for and to screen for. jenna: what do you think?. >> i totally agree with that. it is not just about the pill itself. it is about education that goes with the pill. so we must be responsible doctors to prescribe, remember to tell patients do not take pain medication if you do not require it. we should not prescribing long courses. we should remember to tell patients about the risk of

alcohol and other medications that may interfere. we must also remember that when we're prescribing large doses of these medications there's a huge number of these pills around in the home and they need to be kept securely and safe away from people who may have access to these when there not even been prescribed for them. jenna: what about the access to alternative therapis? one patient advocacy group said they really disagreed with the limitation because they're advocates for folks who do the not cancer but live with chronic pain. access to therapy, physical therapy or anything else to help the patient is so challenging compared to getting a prescription that's what we need to change in our approach to health care. >> pain management is something that's very much-needed. i think that one of the things we see that addicts do, they have cronic back pain that can't be identified. that is one of the things we hear all the time. it is this mysterious back pain. jenna: do you hear that too, doctor? >> i do. unfortunately many patients with chronic pain have not been formally assessed by a

pain physician. there are doctors that specialize in just managing pain. many patients never had an appointment with the doctors and repeat, repeat prescriptions. i do think there is a roll for regular review of the patients to make sure they're on the best regime. we're looking at side-effects and reviewing prescription. >> your final thoughts on that, joe. >> my final thoughts there are lots of ways to manage pain. these are very dangerous medications. you said they kill more than hero cocaine combined. they also kill more than can accidents. people have to keep that in mind the concept of the scope of this problem and how deadly it is. jenna: great context. thank you both for coming in. we appreciate it very much as always. >> thank you. jenna: jon? jon: talking about addiction problems, one of the stars of the hit show "glee", corimon teelth bams the -- corimon teeth is the latest actor to check into rehab. we'll talk about his

struggles coming up. after hurricane sandy hit parts of the east coast they're hitting a new nightmare. what they say is stalling their rebuilding efforts

jon: "glee"'s cory monteith has joined a growing list of celebrities checking into rehab. the 30-year-old's rep says the actor has voluntarily admitted himself to a treatment facility for substance addiction. it is not his first time in rehab. he also received treatment when he was 19 and has previously spoken about his addiction struggles. he stars as fin hudson on the fox show. he is dating his co-star, lea michelle. who says she loves and supports him. jenna: it has been five months since superstorm sandy ripped homes along the jersey shore. the nightmare is not over as many homeowners say the efforts to rebuild have been greatly stalled by insurance companies. rick leventhal is live in

new jersey with more on this rick, how are things looking down there? >> reporter: you know what, jenna, on some parts of the jersey shore is looks like the storm just hit. thousands of home they haven't started rebuilding process or now beginning repairs. many cases end lengthy battles how much the insurance will recover. we found one couple who may have to declare bankruptcy because they need $140,000 to rebuild the home and insurance company is only offering 28 grand. >> it is hard to man that we used to live here. that we had a life and now it is gone. >> you leave for a night because the storm is coming and you never think, these the last night you're going to sleep in your bed, you know. that is the last night you will come home. that is the last time you will cook indidder in your house or watch a movie or, hang out on your deck, you know? have people over. it is done. and, it is just upsetting that the insurance companies aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing. >> they're dragging their

feet, you know. they're submitting low offers to the point where, like, you know, you're supposed to walk away even though you had flood insurance? that makes no sense. >> reporter: the purcells have appealed. but they're both living in a room in her parents house. jenna. jenna: that is one family's story. are there any insurance success stories out there where families have been able to receive what they need? >> reporter: there are some. the owner of this home, darcy green, recently got a settlement from her insurance company. her flood insurance paid 80% of the of her claim. there are workers rebuilding the first floor and her basement. it may not be finished until august. in fact today and tonight there are special editions of "studio b" and the fox report and shepard smith will be in seaside heights, new jersey. we'll look at a struggle homeowners and business owners are facing with the

summer season around the corner. jenna: thank you very much. rick leventhal in new jersey today. >> reporter: sure. jon: a father kills an intruder to protect his own children but police say that suspect wasn't alone. details on the search for his accomplice coming up. [ anouncer ] ihop in time square to compare new griddle-melts to your usual breakfast sandwich. a lot more flavor. [ anouncer ] ihop's new griddle melts... made fresh and hot! hand crafted just for you. it's like a sexy sandwich. [ anouncer ] compare new griddle melts yourself. just $4. it's like a sexy sandwich. it's an epic breakfast sandwich.

jenna: philadelphia homeowner opens fire at two suspects during a home invasion. police say one was killed, the other got away. patti ann has more from the newsroom. >> reporter: jenna, that homeowner, 63-year-old lee hang, lives on the second floor of the building in south philadelphia with his family. he was asleep at 1:00 in the morning when he heard his 14-year-old son screaming from the upstairs kitchen. he reportedly grabbed his gun and confronted two armed men who had broken in through the second floor bathroom window. he fought with the two men

and eventually fired at them. the men ran out through the window. he called police who found one of the men dead on the back roof. surveillance video show the other man escaping on foot. a manhunt is on for that suspect, described in his 30s with a medium build. he says he was hit in the face with a gun during the fight. he considers himself lucky he suffered just a minor lip injury. he reportedly told police he recognized men from the neighborhood. they think they planned to rob the jewelry store he owns on the first floor. he doesn't have a permit for the gun. he will not be charged because pennsylvania has a castle doctrine to use force against intruders in their own home. jenna? jenna: patti ann, thank you. jon: social media is buzzing this morning over rumors of a facebook phone. the social network sparking speculation with a cryptic announcement about a mobile event taking place this week. shibani joshi joins us from the fox business network.

so why would facebook want to make or sell a phone? >> reporter: that is an obviously question, jon. we know it to be a social network we don't ever want to get off of but facebook wants to make money and be everywhere that you are. there are so many other competitors in this sand box so to speak but facebook as one thing other big players, google, apple, others do not have, that is a very captive audience. in fact a new study from idc, also funded by facebook found that facebook mobile users check their facebook account on the phone 14 times a day. some are, most within 15 minutes of waking up. so what they want to do is own the entire money-making experience and there's a lot of money to be made in the smartphone industry. in fact the industry is growing 12% a year, growing 50% over the next three years. so what they want to do is make money when they sell you a phone. there is money to be made in software, apps, mobile payment, cloud services. they want to make money every step along the way.

>> so what would this phone look like? >> reporter: here are the rumors we're hearing of. overall i would give this an oomph. i am not sure this is the sexiest phone i ever heard of. we think the phone will be made by htc. a customized version of google android operating system. 4.3 inch screen, 16 gigs of storage. a camera that is weaker than what you get on the iphone. the big selling point with wi-fi, same you do with skype and other voice applications you can get free calls and text message. you said on thursday, is when we're going to see whether or not this phone gets unwrapped and what it will look like. jon: all right. save the unveiling for us. shibani joshi thank you. jenna: tensions are escalating with nuclear armed north korea. coming up bret baier will join us with the latest response from washington, d.c. law enforcement in texas on high alert today after a d.a. and his wife were murdered in their home. we'll talk with a former fbi

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♪ jon: right now prosecutors in texas on high alert after two of their own are gunned down in cold blood. the most recent victim a district attorney on your left along with his wife, killed in their own home. is there evidence these murders are linked to a notorious group? awaiting a major ruling that could affect the decisions of local leaders across the country. will a judge let stockton, california go broke and become the most populous city in the u.s. to get bankruptcy protection? the winner of the fourth biggest jackpot in powerball history is heing to court, and it's all over money. it's "happening now." but first, nuclear north korea moves closer to war, welcome to this brand-new hour of "happening now." i'm jon scott.

>> i'm jenna lee. south korea is warning its military will launch a strong response to any provocation after north korea declared a state of war. now our country, the united states is sending f-22 stealth fighter jets from a base in japan to south korea. what should we make of all these moves? james rosen is live in washington with more on this. james, our viewers have heard as we made these reports that analysts do not expect a full-scale war to break out. there is a concern about miscalculation. why? and what does that mean? >> reporter: it's happened before in period of heightened tension. what's more western allies are confronted with the untern tees presented by a youthful dictator who significant military experience but may feel he has much to prove to the men around him. south korea's president in her job for all of a month now instructed commanders at the south korean defense ministry this morning to, quote, respond strongly without any political considerations to any attack

from the north. her order recalls what was widely viewed as south korea's slow and weak response to the shelling of an island by north korean artillery units back in 2010 an action that claimed four lives and injured close to 20 others. >> there is no question that the u.s. and china are the biggest players, china is the biggest by far, and they are the ones that need to really play a big role in trying to denucularize north korea. >> they rely on beijing for 45% of its goods, 80% of its consumer goods and 90% of its energy imports. jenna: we heard of another announcement inside that government, what is happening there? >> the dprk as north korea calls itself announced over the weekends the two national priorities building of nuclear weapons, and the jump starting, my word not theirs of the

national economy. kim jong un appointed a man in his 70s to the post of premiere. park is believed to harbor some interest in reforming the country's stall lynn-tile centrally planned economy which is today smaller in total gdp terms than it was 20 years ago the move marks an extraordinary rehabilitation for park who is officially perpblg purged six years ago. it was business as usual at the industrial complex, an enormous facility a few miles north of the border between the two korea. it houses one hundred commercial firms and jointly operated by the two koreans. the north had threatened this weekend to shut it down, jenna. jenna: business as usual at least for now. >> reporter: somewhere. jenna: james, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. jon: north korea has made so many threats recently it's almost hard to keep track. by our count there were more than 11 in the month of march alone. the most recent coming on march 30th when the north warned that any squirm i shall with the united states or south

korea will, quote, develop into an all out war a nuclear war. on march 7th pyongyang created the united states with a preemptive nuclear attacks to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors that apparently based on the belief that washington is pushing to start a nuclear war against the north. as you probably know the threats intensified in the wake of the north's third nuclear testing in february. let's talk about it all with bret baier the anchor of special report who joins us now. how is everyone in washington assessing this seemingly new-found belligerence on the part of the north korean as, b ret. >> i think they are taking it seriously judging by some of the reaction from lawmakers, and also from the administration, that this is a different tone, a different tenor from north korea. the mo in the past has been to saber rattle, to toss out this rhetoric and then to do a deal for food aid essentially. now it seems like with this

statement that north korea's intent on both trying to revive its economy and continue to move forward with nuclear weapons at all costs, it's a different message. james mentioned that the key here is china, china is always the lynchpin in anything with north korea. they hold a big economic leverage over that country, and china does not want to see thousands, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of refugees across that border into china china is dealing with is own problem of locating people from rural china to urban china. so, again, that is really the key in how this all plays out. jon: there is one school of thought that says that by acting belligerent lee toward the united states the north koreans may get the united states to come back to the bargaining table, just by threatening us that we perk up our ears and say, okay, let's talk. is there the appetite for that

in washington right now? >> it doesn't seem like that there is. there is the moves of military tests and training exercises with the south koreans. we saw the b-2 stealth bombers and b-52 bombers as well as the f-22 stealth fighter jets taking part, the pentagon saying this has been long planned but it is the show of force that the u.s. wants to make sure that the north understands how closely allied the u.s. is with south korea. as far as getting back to the take, those threats don't seem to be bringing the u.s. closer to that table any time soon. jon: there is also the thinking that the north koreans are testing the relatively new president park, the first female president in south korea. >> right. in the past when there has been a new president in south korea soon after the inauguration

there has been some sabre rattling from the north or some kind of test, something from the north korean leader. april 15th is actually the anniversary of the birth of kim il s u.n. g, the grandfather of kim jong un and that is going to be a big day. usually something that the north does around that could also continue this provocation. jon: again, very tense times on the korean peninsula, where 20 or 30,000 u.s. troops are already on deployment. bret baier, good to have you on thank you. later on "happening now" we will take a closer look at whether it is realistic to rid the world of nuclear weapons at a time like this. president obama has talked about that being his eventual goal, but with north korea rattling its sabre is it in america's best interests? we'll take a closer look. also remember you can catch bret each week night 6pm eastern

night. he anchors special report right here on fox news channel. jenna: a little closer to home we're awaiting a major ruling from a judge on whether stockton, california will become the most populous u.s. city to get bankruptcy protection. schakowsky is livcould you claudia cowan is live. >> it could test whether federal bankruptcy law triumphs the california law that says the city has to honor debts to the state pension fund. they want to reduce what they pay back on a loan they took back in 2007 money they used to pay calpers, the retirement system. $900million in pension obligation represent the city's biggest debt. they faced a shortfall last summer when they filed for bankruptcy after cutting a quarter of is police force and other city services to the bone. officials argue bankruptcy is

their own option. during a three-day hearing in federal court last week bond insurers who guaranteed that big loan argued hey it's unfair for them to lose money when the retirement fund, which when times were good, they committed to make whole remains untouched. a long list of creditors says the city did not negotiate in good faith and could have raised taxes to avoid chapter 9. legal experts predict the legacy of stockton and other cash-strapped cities like san bernardino and detroit will be a top down reevaluation of municipal finance. >> i think what we're going to see is local governments looking for carefully at the kinds of borrowing they will make and how they with reasonably expect to pay them off. >> most experts predict the judge will allow stockton to enter into bankruptcy which we'll know in about an hour. they expect the ruling will be appealed perhaps all the way to the u.s. supreme court.

jenna. jenna: we'll continue to watch this story as it develops, claudia, thank you. jon: we are learning more about a horrifying scene on a major highway, almost one hundred cars involved in a series of deadly pileups, swerving and crashing, many of them catching fire, what caused this tragedy. plus, texas very much on edge after a district attorney and his wife are murdered in their own home. now the hunt is on for a killer. the latest on the investigation. [ male announcer ] this is george. the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day or 2 aleve for all day relief. [ male announcer ] that's handy. ♪

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stretch of that road. police say the crashes were mostly caused by drivers going too fast in poor and foggy conditions. the reason tphoebg times reports there's been at least six similar crashes on the same roadway since 1997. sunday's pileup was the no, sir deadly skwraot investigation into a double murder in texas possibly focusing now on a white supremacist group after a district attorney and his wife were killed inside their home this weekend. the murder of michael khref r- mcclellan and his wife followed the killings of one of his colleagues two months earlier. the air yan brotherhood may be behind this weekend's killings and the other one earlier this year. they suggest the white supremacist group is one of the primary focus. they are vowing to press on with the investigation. >> we have got to move forward and hope and pray that the people that are investigating

this. no they are doing everything they can, hopefully whoever is committing these heinous crimes will be caught very quickly. jenna: let's bring in retired f.b.i. special agent jeff lanza. the reports are poorly sourced i should add at this time. what do you know about this group and how do you feel potentially about this connection. >> we do know that the air yan brotherhood was formed in the california state prison system decades ago. they are a large and violent group. the f.b.i. has said in the prison population they make up a very small percentage of the population itself but may be responsible for a great deal of the homicides in the prison system. they also of course had a big presence outside the prison system and are responsible for violent crimes and other types of activities. what is happening here though is what we do know, jenna is that the texas authorities in desiree leased a bulletin that the ai

aarayan brotherhood was talking about retaliating against officials recently responsible for prosecutions in that area. that is what is tying this particular group to this investigation, at least what we know right now. jenna: in what sort of scenario would a bulletin like that be released and for someone who has worked in law enforcement as you have, when you see that bulletin how much credence do you get it? >> they use the word credible information, and you distinguish what might be rumors and innuendo and what may be credible information. in this case they used the terms credible information. so that means there was some indication, some source of information that this was going to happen, and now with the f.b.i. and other agencies that are working on this case will have to do is to go back to that original source or sources of information to try to figure out exactly what happened. that would be the next step in the investigation. jenna: we talked about white

supremacist groups briefly a couple of weeks ago when there was a murder of a prison chief in colorado, and the suspect in this case that was later killed by police was linked to a white sue preliminar supremacist group inside a prison and he was chased to texas from colorado essentially. we are seeing a picture of the suspect who is now dead on the screen. and there's been some questions raised about what the possible connection could be between the murder in colorado and this in texas. how would you go about even investigating that, jeff? >> again, it goes back to that original source, although there's been some information out now that those two events, or now the three events may not be connected, at least the two in texas connected to the one in colorado. but again there still could be that nexus and authorities are going to have to look at the underlying source of that credible information to determine what happened and what is going to be happening going forward. and you have to remember that these organized groups generally in the past do not strike out at prosecutors, do not strike out at law enforcement because they know that is going to just

solidify and intensify the efforts against those groups. jenna: interesting, mary ellen o'toole is with us an f.b.i. profiler as i'm sure you know, she was talking about the profile of someone who would commit this crime saying it's very personal to go to someone's house, very brazen and to not only kill them but also their wife as well. how would you go about keeping other law enforcement officials in the area, jeff, safe now? what is the key to doing that? >> right. that is a great question, and prosecutors have always p-pb aware of the threats -- been aware of the threats that are out there based on the job that they do. they serve a public, in the public sector and they are a very high profile position and they are always exposed to these types of threats and most of them have taken steps over the years to protect themselves, to keep their addresses private as possible. you can't do that in today's age completely, but they have to at least try to maintain as low a profile as possible, but know

that these threats are out there and could always surface at times like we're seeing right now in texas and in colorado. jenna: that's right. jeff it's great to have you, thank you for your expertise in this particular case. we always look forward to having you back and discuss others as well. thank you so much. >> you're welcome. jon: police are investigating now after a major pipeline spill in one state. why officials are now saying it could be weeks before displaced residents get back into their homes. a man crashes his car into a walmart and then starts attacking customers. details on what went down straight ahead.

jenna: officials in ardan saw are saying it could be weeks before residents are allowed back in their homes after an oil

spill in the area. patti ann brown has more. >> reporter: the pipeline ruptured friday in central arkansas. 22 homes have been evacuated from a small town mere littlerock. other people left on their own complaining of breathing problems. the cleanup could take week. it is owned by exxon mobil. it carries crude from illinois to the texas gulf coast. it has sent 120 workers, 15 vacuum trucks and 33 storage tanks to help cleanup the site. the u.s. environmental protection agency is coordinating this large effort. so far more than 12,000 barrels of crude and water have been recovered, an epa official says this will be an extensive and long cleanup. more than 200 residents packed a community meeting to get an update and many were angry. they say they were told at first that they'd be displaced for a day or two and now it's looking like it might be weeks. 50 people have already filed claims with exxon mobil for reimbursement for hotel and other expenses. moan while investigators do not know yet what caused the spill,

jenna. jenna: more as we get it. thank you. jon: a strange and disturbing attack inside a walmart, a driver crashes his car into that busy shopping center then starts assaulting customers. jeanine delavega reporting from san jose. california. >> employees are feeling uneasy this morning a day after that attack happened. i want to show you exactly how this all went down. you can see there are pylons in front of the store. this driver didn't come in this way, instead what he did was he drove his car up onto the sidewalk where you see those grocery carts past the vending machines and then crashed into the store. you can see they have it all boarded up now. the store was completely filled with people. police say this male driver of a red oldsmobile first hit two cars in the walmart parking lot and then intentionally crashed into the entrance of the store. the car launched hit selfon top of a beer display. witnesses say the driver then got out of his car, grabbed a

blunt object and started hitting customers and workers. witnesses took him down until officers arrived and they arrested him. we know at least one employee and several customers were injured, three of them were taken to the hospital, two are in serious condition. what we know about the driver right now is he's described as being in his 30s, officers say he appeared to be under the influence of drugs, possibly methamphetamine. he faces several charges, including assault with a deadly weapon and hit-and-run. he was taken to the hospital but right now his condition is unknown. that's the latest from here. jon. jon: ktvu, thank you. jenna: accused of a horrifying mass murder in a crowded movie theater and now prosecutors are seek being the death penalty for james holmes. we just found that out last hour. we have a live report from colorado on what is next in this case. plus north korea and iran stirring up all kind of trouble with their nuclear program, north korea certainly ahead of iran but iran certainly in focus

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jon: prosecutors now say they will seek the death penalty against the man charged in the aurora, colorado movie theater massacre. james holmes accused of murdering 12 people and injuring nearly 70 others during that mass shooting last summer.

alicia ac u.n. a live in centennial colorado at the courthouse. >> the trial has been set for early 2014. today the district attorney george brockler told the judge for james eagan holmes justice is death. he says his office reached out to more than 800 victims and relatives of the shooting, the da saying he had personally spoken to 60 people related to people in last summer's massacre. james holmes offered to plead guilty in an attempt to escape the death. made that offer in a filing with the court last week. the d.a.'s office called that move nothing more than a publicity stunt. holmes' attorneys are expected to pursue an insanity defense for their client. if in that happens in colorado the burden is on the prosecution to prove holmes was sane at the time of the crime. this was one person's reaction after the hearing. take a listen. >> i'm happy about the decision

because he -- the only way you can serve -- get justice for murder is death upon yourself. >> reporter: there was no visible reaction from holmes himself, his parents were there today too. our producer inside the courtroom says when the decision on capital punishment was announced his mother put her head down in her hands. some of the victims of the shooting were in court today, they cried. also today judge william sylvester says that he cannot serve on this case any longer, he said it was a matter of scheduling, because this is now a death penalty case, and as the chief justice here he cannot do that so he reassigned this case to a new judge, judge carlos samore, a judge who has completed a judicial clerk ship at the 10th court of appeals and also a graduate of columbine high school. jon: interesting connections there. thank you. >> our shared future, and the

unprecedented opportunity to meet and share challenges together is what brings me to seoul. over the next two days under president lee's leadership we'll move ahead with the urgent work of preventing nuclear terrorism by securing the world's nuclear materials. this is an important part of the broader, comprehensive agenda that i want to talk with you about today. our vision of a world without nuclear weapons. jenna: that is the president speaking in seoul, south korea a little more than a year ago. at that time the united states was pursuing a policy to achieve a world without nuclear weapons. as we know it as of now that still is the policy of this administration. an editor kwral in the "washington post" this weekend caught our eye because of this. in it several prominent policy makers say the president's policy on nuclear weapons is dangerous to us and they argue that with threats from iran, and from north korea, making a no

nukes policy is unrealistic and should be rethought. one of the authors of that article frank gaffney is khoeupbg us, he's a former assistant secretary of defense in the reagan administration. and joe disoni, author of history of nuclear weapons. weave talked to him several times about the disarming of nuclear weapons. glad to have you with us. why do you think that this rhetoric of a no nuke policy is dangerous? >> well it's fitting we are having this conversation today. this whole idea of ridding the world of nuclear weapons would be a sort of classic april fool's hoax if it hadn't been going on for so long, and if it weren't so serious, and that's basically for three reasons. you cannot disinvent nuclear weapons especially when their technology is in the hand of countries like north korea and iran. i think even if you could somehow achieve that you would

find that a world without nuclear weapons is actually a more dangerous world, it's one that we've experienced before, we've had two horrific global cataclysms in the course of a world without nuclear weapons. i don't think we want to go back to that. finally the question of whether or not just trying to get this is cost free, or even a desirable thing i think has been proven by the north korean crisis of the morning to be untrue. when the united states signals it's desire to denuclearize he's leading from in front trying to get the rest of the world to follow, no one seems to be following in this respect. when we do this it engenders a concern on the part of our allies and eupl boldens our enemy. it's a hoax at best and an invitation to disaster. jenna: a lot of different reasons there. joe you can pick up off of any that you like. i'd like to draw attention to

frank's last point when he talks about north korea an says, listen, you know, if we can't get our enemies on board with this no-nuke policy then why should we consider it? >> yeah, well it was president kennedy who said we have to abolish the weapons of war before they abolish us. it was ronald reagan who said his hope was to eliminate nuclear weapons from the tpaeufs the earth. ronald reagan started to do something about it. he slashed the u.s. nuclear arsenal by 50% getting the soviets to come down the same way. george h.w. bush cut it another 50%. george w. bush cut it another 50%. president obama hasn't done that but now he's listening to his military. he says we have far mere nuclear weapons than we need and they are expensive. it's taking money away from the troops as congress starts to cut the u.s. national defense budget. so when you look at north korea they have maybe two or three nuclear weapons, maybe as many as ten. how many do we actually need?

it's hard to imagine us using one. you can imagine that we might need say 50, which using 50 would be a catastrophe unpresents den ned history, maybe you want to be safe and say 500. we have 5,000 nuclear weapons. that's what the military is telling the president, you can cut that by a thousand, maybe 1500 and still satisfy all our national security needs and save hundreds of billions of dollars in the process. jenna: frank, joe says we're safe, we have what we need, why not save a little money and cut the stuff that we don't need, listen to our military joe says. >> joe didn't respond to a single one of the objections that i raise bed his objective which is to rid the world of nuclear weapons. i worked for president reagan on nuclear weapons policy and i can tell you we are living today on the legacy of president reagan's commitment to rebuild our nuclear deterrent. we haven't done much of it since. and this is the problem, is what joe has accomplished with this

strategy of denuclearizg the united states is creating conditions under which where we have weapons that are obsolete. not as safe and reliable and effective as they need to be. if i were the military i'd be concerned not simply about the numbers of weapons that we have but the quality of weapons we have, and the ability to deter countries that may behave as erratically as the north koreans are behaving at the moment. that is a job that i think they need to be worrying about and don't seem to be doing that as well as they should. jenna: on that point, though one of the arguments that you make in your editorial is having nuclear weapons detears proliferation. even though we have nuclear weapons it hasn't deterred proliferation at all. we've seen north korea nuke up, we are worried about iran. how much of a deterrent really is it to have all these weapons? >> i think the point we're making is we've had relatively little nuclear proliferation during a period when the united

states maintained a very strong, very robust, very credible deterrent, not only for its own protection but for those of our friend and allies. here is the real problem, as people have begun t are not serious about this. following this global zero idea of the president's, particularly, they have begun to calculate, maybe they better get their own. i think what you'll see as this proceeds, perhaps in places like south korea, in japan, in taiwan, in who knows the middle east, saudi arabia and so on there will be more and more people deciding they need to have their own deterrents because they can't rely on us. that is a formula for not only proliferation but for global instability. i wouldn't think that any of us would want that. jenna: joe on this idea of speak soft low and carry a big stick the world is get morgue dangerous. is there something in the symbolism of having a lot of nuclear weapons and just being more readily de, more prepared, more nuked up for lack of a better term than anybody else in the world? frank is so eloquent in stating

his rather extreme position. >> thank you, joe. >> and characterizing -- jenna: thaws very nice joe, what a nice compliment. >> i'll take it. >> thank you. nobody is talking about unilateral disarm or meant. nobody is talking about getting rid of our nuclear weapons any time soon. everybody is talking about rationalizing the nuclear force. we used to have 35,000 nuclear weapons, so did the soviets, we've cut that, we are down to about 5,000 now and we see the russians coming down the same way. this is still many, many times more than the other countries in the world have in their relatively small nuclear ars navals. you see the argument is we can go further down together, verifiable mutual steps, step-by-step reducing and when we do that we build up the international cooperation you need to prevent new states from getting it, not to convince pyongyang that they should follow us but to convince the countries around north korea to continue the pressure to contain and eventually rollback that. it's two sides of the same coin, you reduce you build up the

international cooperation. >> it's not working joe. >> you build up the international cooperation, you create the conditions of tpaourts reducing. there are further count there's with nuclear weapons now than 30 years ago, fewer countries trying to get them. >> not true. >> it is true. >> not true. >> there is only north korea and iran. >> i've mentioned half a dozen that are going to go nuclear, joe, unfortunately because of the conditions you're helping to create. >> i don't believe that is true. >> we need a debate on this. we absolutely need a debate on this. jenna: we'd love that debate to happen live on our air. we'd leave it there for now. >> thank you, jenna lee. jenna: it's a good conversation. >> happy april fool's joe. jenna: come on, you guys keep it nice and friendly here, right, april 1st. >> this is the point. >> thank you for having us. >> no hoaxes. jenna: thank you very much. talk to you soon. >> my pleasure. >> thank you. jon: an emotional reunion for a u.s. veteran of the korean war. richard kedwallater reuniting with a woman she helped when she was badly burned as a little girl, the two seeing each other

once again at a ceremony in seoul 60 years after the vet helped her get medical treatment at a u.s. base. he is now 82, but time has not dimmed his memory of what happened. >> i can't tell you how -- when a brave young lady this woman was 60 years ago, in terms of recovering from her burns. they were very, very severe, and she and her mother were two examples of the most courageous people i've ever known. jon: he says he always wondered what happened to that little girl. she in turn thanked him for all of his help back then and for finding her all these years later. jenna: well a brand-new multi-millionaire facing some new claims on his new fortune.

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all your imptant legal matters in just minutes. protect youramily... and launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. jon: a major push for new gun restrictions getting lots of attention over the past week. how have the news media been covering the issue? let's check in with our news watch panel. skwhr*eupl pinkerton contributing editor and writer for the american conservative magazine, also a fox news contributor. alan colmes you know well, he is the syndicate eud radio host of the alan colmes show and author of thank the liberals for saving america, and why you should. in thinking about this segment, jim it occurred to me that there is not just a republican-democrat divide when it comes to gun ownership and gun control, that sort of thing, but it's also a rural america versus urban america sort of divide sometimes.

because so many of the mainstream media are headquartered in big cities like new york, do they even bother to think about how guns are considered in rural america? >> well, i'm not sure. i think part of the problem that the left has on this issue is that michael bloomberg has become sort of the symbol of gun control forces. he's also a symbol for slurpie control forces and caused kind kind of a backlash in new york city on that issue. the other split is within the democratic party. when you see dana milbank a very well known reporter from the washing upon post hitting president obama and the administration hard last week, it's still reverberating this morning as recently as morning joe for not doing enough on gun control i think you're seeing a very difficult time for the president and the progun control forces. jon: the media have been beating the drum, alan in large part,

the mainstream media seem to think that more gun control is what we need right now. >> it seems to me first of all you had morning joe, "meet the press," milbank and "the washington post," saying did the president work quick enough, did he take advantage of the momentum after newtown. i don't know how you call that the liberal meeting when they seem to be negative how quickly the president and of course congress acted. let's not forget that the polls show that most americans want at least expanded background checks and that's where the country is at, both rural and urban, that something can be done if not everything. jon: one of the things that milbank seemed to be decrying was the fact that mr. obama misdirected some of his energies. let me read for you just a bit of that op ed piece that he wrote in "the washington post" on friday. obama erred in trying to use newtown to build support for his positions on taxes, energy and eupl aeu congratulations and

compounded the error by sending joe biden off to conduct a study, an unnecessary delay when solutions were obvious. once the president took his foot off the accelerator no other action, not even michael bloomberg's ad campaign could maintain the momentum. directed very much at the president there, jim. >> right although of course i hope hillary clinton loved that line about biden failing, didn't she? i think what's really happening also is a greater precision about what is going on. rand paul asked last week, look, show me one thing in these gun proposal has would have stopped these guys from killing. and i don't think anybody had a good answer to them. as a matter of fact will salatan at slate.com this morning went through the cases of jar rod laughner, james holmes and the guy in connecticut, adam lan today and said these people were all clearly mentally ill, they were crazy. that's why they went on these killing sprees. and he had to admit, he is no conservative he had to admit that nothing that is being talked about now on the gun

control front would do anything about that. that's what the progun control forces have to get clear on, the precision of will the new laws you want to see passed actually stop the next crazy from killing at schools. jon: alan i know you're chomping at the bit to get in. i'm sure you heard chris wallace with markle lease, the husband of gabrielle giffords, saying jarrod laughner passed a background check. >> what mark kelly said is -- which is why we need to have a better look for example at people's mental health history. he pointed out that certain records being part of that look back, had there been a more universal background check, he might have been found out ahead of type. it's not simply a matter of making sure that everything all the time comes into play. we know that not all every crime not every tragedy will be prevented, with expanded background checks and if we had

the proper information in those background checks about james holmes and laughner we may be able to make some progress toward prevention. >> you know what i didn't hear from alan just then, guns and ammo clips. notice how the debate is changing right before our eyes. >> you're not going to get everything. >> exactly. focus on what actually stops killing. >> basic things like looking like background checks and having the proper information in those background checks which mark kelly pointed out yesterday was not there, that information should have been there. jon: all right. there is much more to this debate and obviously we will be having it in the days and weeks to come. alan colmes, jim pinkerton thank you both. >> thank you. jenna: she is a symbol of democracy in a place where it doesn't exist. the cuban disassent who fought to expose the realities of her communist government. we'll talk about her next. the new guy is loaded with protein! i'll believe it when i--- [ both ] oooooh... [ female announcer ] as you get older, protein is an important part of staying active and strong.

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here. a high profile cuban disassent is finally allowed to leave her communist homeland getting a hero's welcome in places like miami, where she visited the freedom tower. rick sanchez is live in davie, florida, a contributor to fox news and fox news latino and most recently m u.n. do fox. rick, for our viewers that might not be nam with yolani sanchez, tell bus her story. >> she is a superstar blogger internationally who has 460,000 people who follow her on twitter, and while some people in this country might think big deal we hear a lot of people on twitter no, no, no she twraoets itweets in a tow tal layer yan country, sends it to her friends and they translate it into 16 or

17 languages so she can tell her story. the message that she puts out is the message that is bold for someone who lives in a tow tal tear yan country. you live in a country like cuba and you're saying something as crazy as, i say that with my tongue firmly plant ned my check, our rights are inalienable, they are given us from god, it's not the government's job to decide how our children are educated, et cetera, et cetera. we need her in the united states right now. it's exactly the kind of message that we need to be hearing here as well, that those rights are in fact our rights, that are not -- they are god-given rights not state-given rights. it may be a very appropriate time for her to be making this visit here to the united states. jon: she has been arrested in cuba. she was even beaten as i understand it by the authorities there. why did they let her out now? why did they let her go on this world-speaking tour? >> because, jon she is inoculated by her own fame. think about it when somebody

becomes that famous anything that they do right now would really be blow back against them, it would be very difficult for them to try to castigate her in think way because essentially it would hurt the cuban government's cause. in some ways they've created their own monster and now they have to live witness. i think it's a good thing that she is out there giving that message, giving a about a message that is really universal, jon. jon: hats off to her for her courage. i understand she gets to see her sister who left cuba a couple of years ago, hasn't seen her in those years. >> reporter: spent some time with her last night i understand. jon: good talking to you rick. thanks. jenna: major league baseball comes out swinging helpingth vets. we'll show you how, next.

>> happening now, it's opening day for major league baseball and this year the league is donating 10 million dollars to support vets and their families and we know someone at opening day. our